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12 Thus says Yahweh, “Just as the shepherd rescues two legs or a piece of an ear from the mouth of the lion, so shall the people[a] of Israel who dwell in Samaria, with the corner of a couch and the damask of a bed.” 13 “Listen and testify against the house of Jacob,” declares[b] my Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts. 14 “For on the day I punish Israel for its transgression,[c] I will also punish the altars of Bethel and the horns of the altar will be cut off and fall to the ground.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 3:12 Literally “children”
  2. Amos 3:13 Literally “a declaration of”
  3. Amos 3:14 Literally “the transgression of Israel upon it”